EPrints

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Eprints
Developer(s) University of Southampton
Stable release
3.4.5 [1] / 2023-05-25 [±]
Repository
Written in Perl
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Institutional repository software
License GPL-3.0-or-later
Website eprints.org

EPrints is a free and open-source software package for building open access repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). It shares many of the features commonly seen in document management systems, but is primarily used for institutional repositories and scientific journals. [2] EPrints has been developed at the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science and released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license. [3]

Contents

The EPrints software is not to be confused with "Eprints" (or "e-prints"), which are preprints (before peer review) and postprints (after peer review), of research journal articles (eprints = preprints + postprints).

History

EPrints was created in 2000 [3] as a direct outcome of the 1999 Santa Fe meeting [4] that launched what eventually became the OAI-PMH.

The EPrints software was enthusiastically received [5] and became the first and one of the most widely used [6] free open access, institutional repository software, and it has since inspired the development of other software that fulfil a similar purpose, [7] notably DSpace.

Version 3 of the software was officially released on 24 January 2007 at the Open Repositories 2007 Conference [8] and was described by its developers as "a major leap forward in functionality, giving even more control and flexibility to repository managers, depositors, researchers and technical administrators". [9]

Technology

EPrints is a Web and command-line application based on the LAMP architecture (but is written in Perl rather than PHP). It has been successfully run under Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X. [10] A version for Microsoft Windows was released 17 May 2010. [11]

Version 3 of the software introduced a (Perl-based) plugin architecture for importing and exporting data, converting objects (for search engine indexing) and user interface widgets. [12]

Configuring an EPrints repository involves modifying configuration files written in Perl or XML. The appearance of a repository is controlled by HTML templates, CSS stylesheets and inline images. While EPrints is shipped with an English translation it has been translated to other languages through (redistributable) language-specific XML phrase files. Existing translations include Bulgarian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian. [13]

Related Research Articles

arXiv Online archive of e-preprints

arXiv is an open-access repository of electronic preprints and postprints approved for posting after moderation, but not peer review. It consists of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, electrical engineering, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, mathematical finance and economics, which can be accessed online. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific papers are self-archived on the arXiv repository before publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Some publishers also grant permission for authors to archive the peer-reviewed postprint. Begun on August 14, 1991, arXiv.org passed the half-million-article milestone on October 3, 2008, had hit a million by the end of 2014 and two million by the end of 2021. As of April 2021, the submission rate is about 16,000 articles per month.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Open Archives Initiative</span> Informal organisation

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) was an informal organization, in the circle around the colleagues Herbert Van de Sompel, Carl Lagoze, Michael L. Nelson and Simeon Warner, to develop and apply technical interoperability standards for archives to share catalogue information (metadata). The group got together in the late late 1990s and was active for around twenty years. OAI coordinated in particular three specification activities: OAI-PMH, OAI-ORE and ResourceSync. All along the group worked towards building a "low-barrier interoperability framework" for archives containing digital content to allow people harvest metadata. Such sets of metadata are since then harvested to provide "value-added services", often by combining different data sets.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Preprint</span> Academic paper prior to journal publication

In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal. The preprint may be available, often as a non-typeset version available free, before or after a paper is published in a journal.

CogPrints is an electronic archive in which authors can self-archive papers in any area of cognitive science, including psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, and many areas of computer science, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology, as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.

The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is a protocol developed for harvesting metadata descriptions of records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives. An implementation of OAI-PMH must support representing metadata in Dublin Core, but may also support additional representations.

An institutional repository (IR) is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution. Academics also utilize their IRs for archiving published works to increase their visibility and collaboration with other academics. However, most of these outputs produced by universities are not effectively accessed and shared by researchers and other stakeholders. As a result academics should be involved in the implementation and development of an IR project so that they can learn the benefits and purpose of building an IR.

In academic publishing, an eprint or e-print is a digital version of a research document that is accessible online, usually as green open access, whether from a local institutional or a central digital repository.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">DSpace</span> Repository software package

DSpace is an open source repository software package typically used for creating open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content. While DSpace shares some feature overlap with content management systems and document management systems, the DSpace repository software serves a specific need as a digital archives system, focused on the long-term storage, access and preservation of digital content. The optional DSpace registry lists almost three thousand repositories all over the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Self-archiving</span> Authorial deposit of documents to provide open access

Self-archiving is the act of depositing a free copy of an electronic document online in order to provide open access to it. The term usually refers to the self-archiving of peer-reviewed research journal and conference articles, as well as theses and book chapters, deposited in the author's own institutional repository or open archive for the purpose of maximizing its accessibility, usage and citation impact. The term green open access has become common in recent years, distinguishing this approach from gold open access, where the journal itself makes the articles publicly available without charge to the reader.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Komodo Edit</span> Text editor for dynamic programming languages

Komodo Edit is a free and open source text editor for dynamic programming languages. It was introduced in January 2007 to complement ActiveState's commercial Komodo IDE. As of version 4.3, Komodo Edit is built atop the Open Komodo project. Komodo IDE is no longer supported and maintained by developers for Python.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Postprint</span> Electronic version of a scholarly manuscript after peer review

A postprint is a digital draft of a research journal article after it has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication, but before it has been typeset and formatted by the journal.

ScientificCommons was a project of the University of St. Gallen Institute for Media and Communications Management. The major aim of the project was to develop the world’s largest archive of scientific knowledge with fulltexts freely accessible to the public. The project was closed down in 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Public Knowledge Project</span> Metadata reservation project for e-journals

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is a non-profit research initiative that is focused on the importance of making the results of publicly funded research freely available through open access policies, and on developing strategies for making this possible. It is a partnership between the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University, the University of Pittsburgh, Ontario Council of University Libraries, the California Digital Library and the School of Education at Stanford University. It seeks to improve the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online environments.

DPubS, developed by Cornell University Library and Penn State University Libraries, is a free open access publication management software. DPubS arose out of Project Euclid, an electronic publishing platform for journals in mathematics and statistics. DPubS is free software released under Educational Community License.

Nature Precedings was an open access electronic preprint repository of scholarly work in the fields of biomedical sciences, chemistry, and earth sciences. It ceased accepting new submissions as of April 3, 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">HAL (open archive)</span> French open access repository

HAL is an open archive where authors can deposit scholarly documents from all academic fields.

PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) is the de facto digital preservation metadata standard.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Registry of Open Access Repositories</span>

The Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) is a searchable international database indexing the creation, location and growth of open access institutional repositories and their contents. ROAR was created by EPrints at University of Southampton, UK, in 2003. It began as the Institutional Archives Registry and was renamed Registry of Open Access Repositories in 2006. To date, over 3,000 institutional and cross-institutional repositories have been registered.

An open repository or open-access repository is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate open access such repositories must be interoperable according to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Search engines harvest the content of open access repositories, constructing a database of worldwide, free of charge available research. Data repositories are the cornerstone for FAIR data practices and are used expeditiously within the scientific community.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">History of open access</span>

The idea and practise of providing free online access to journal articles began at least a decade before the term "open access" was formally coined. Computer scientists had been self-archiving in anonymous ftp archives since the 1970s and physicists had been self-archiving in arXiv since the 1990s. The Subversive Proposal to generalize the practice was posted in 1994.

References

  1. ↑ "Releases - eprints/eprints3.4". github.com. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "Using EPrints v3 plugins to produce an OA journal". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  3. 1 2 Tansley, Robert; Harnad, Stevan (October 2000). "Eprints.org Software for Creating Institutional and Individual Open Archives". D-Lib Magazine (In Brief). Vol. 10, no. 6. doi: 10.1045/october2000-inbrief . ISSN   1082-9873. Archived from the original on 27 September 2024. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
  4. ↑ "Open Archives Initiative: Meeting History". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2007.
  5. ↑ Sponsler, Ed and Van de Velde, Eric F. (2001) Archived 10 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine Eprints.org Software: a Review. SPARC E-News. August–September 2001
  6. ↑ "ROAR Software Version Listing". Archived from the original on 12 October 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  7. ↑ "Welcome to the Registry of Open Access Repositories - Registry of Open Access Repositories". Archived from the original on 31 May 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2007.
  8. ↑ "Open repositories". Archived from the original on 22 November 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2007.
  9. ↑ "Index of /Software/V3". Archived from the original on 22 November 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2007.
  10. ↑ "Tech. Documentation - Introduction". www.eprints.org. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  11. ↑ "ePrints 3.2.1 - ePrints Files". Archived from the original on 17 June 2010. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  12. ↑ "Preservation Support". wiki.eprints.org. Archived from the original on 7 March 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  13. ↑ "Browse by Type - ePrints Files". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2007.
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